Say Something *NEW* about the Beatles...

indeed - problem solved!

Man, I was on fire on this thread.

also, how can you say "so evocative for paul" when he was writing stuff like...

Ah, I think you misread Davey D. He meant that the line was evocative for paul! Since he knows that it was, obv "Davey D." is Paul.

...when he was writing stuff like for no one...

oh come on, even though Davey could only describe his own feelings about the lyrics, I'm sure he was aware that there was an audience out there as well.

1st comment is funny but you lost me on the 2nd one!

I don't know if this has been said, but the version of "I'm Looking Through You" is much, much better on Anthology 2, not just for the superior arrangment and sonics, but because it doesn't yet have the bridge, which is weak musically, and which corners the song into being about love, when it can be about many other kinds of relationships otherwise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eedLQ006ciM

Bridge:
Why, tell me why, did you not treat me right?
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight

I prefer the Anthology versions of 'Something' and 'Can't Buy Me Love'. 'Something' has more of a sitar-y guitar and a new verse, and 'Can't Buy Me Love' has a call and response structure that works really well, too bad it was scrapped.

IIRC john wrote all of the parents' chorus and took it largely from things his famously cranky aunt mimi used to tell him ("never a thought for ourselves...")

There is nothing new to say about The Beatles. But their music is still great nevertheless. Both as a listen in itself, and as a source of musical influence for new generations of musicians to come.

You are a true patriot.

musical influence for new generations of musicians to come.

That could very well be needless wishful thinking, Geir. I say let young people create their own music.

They will anyway.

Ah, I think you misread Davey D. He meant that the line was evocative for paul! Since he knows that it was, obv "Davey D." is Paul.

Have you heard my amazing new album, Memory Almost Full? It like, a stunning return to form, or something, y'know?

I don't know if this has been said, but the version of "I'm Looking Through You" is much, much better on Anthology 2, not just for the superior arrangment and sonics, but because it doesn't yet have the bridge, which is weak musically, and which corners the song into being about love, when it can be about many other kinds of relationships otherwise.

I agree about the bridge cornering the song lyrically, but I prefer the original arrangement. Anthology 3's version of "Ob-La-Di" completely slays the White Album version, though.

It's been a long time since I've heard it, but I seem to remember the acoustic version of "All Things Must Pass" on "Anthology 3" being pretty amazing.

1st comment is funny but you lost me on the 2nd one!

Insert commas in your mind before and after "like".

In my early teens the family had a CD player that had buttons for intro and repeat. You could program a single song and use both buttons so that it'd play the first ten seconds endlessly. I discovered this worked rather well with "Girl," such that you get asked "Is there anybody going to listen to my story all about the girl who came to stay?" over and over. What was once a rhetorical question starts to seem rather desperate after a while.

You know, I read recently that Paul wrote "for no-one" while on holiday abroad (switzerland?) with Jane Asher.

Must have been one hell of a downer holiday!

I say let young people create their own music.

Yes. But based on the legacy of The Beatles. Just like Beethoven created his own music based on the legacy of Mozart and Haydn.

The bridge is the best thing about "I'm Looking Through You"

The 'pre-' version without the bridge is better.

but geir there have already been generations that have done something with the legacy of the beatles. i don't know how long you expect it to go on.

It reads like a Minor Threat song without the bridge.

Stephen King shot John Lennon.

but geir there have already been generations that have done something with the legacy of the beatles.

Not as much as it ought to. Other than progrock, pomp pop and Britpop, not a lot of post 60s music has built that much on The Beatles.

(And powerpop obv)

Nirvana

Geir, contemplating the musical future you envision is boring me to near suicide.

I hope you have fun listening to Ben Folds and the Friends theme song for the rest of your life.

pomp pop?

(tell me less)

Pomp Pop Defined.

ta.

There's no frickin' way John is saying "cranberry sauce" at the end of "Strawberry Fields."

At about age 10, after finally recieving the courage to listen to it all the way through with headphones (cos the end is really fucked up sounding and scared the shit out me at age 7 and kept me up at night and I literally had bad dreams about those sounds haunting me), I thought he was saying "clap very slow."

Man, I was on fire on this thread.

Alex in NYC

I confess to nearly laughing out loud at my Magical Mystery Tour comment above. (And I usually hate encountering my old posts

Did anyone else know about this?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AHrMQa-Iro

When the Rush vs. Yes vs. Beatles poll happens, I expect the Beatles will win.

xp - now I want a Mellotron even more than i used to.....

In my early teens the family had a CD player that had buttons for intro and repeat. You could program a single song and use both buttons so that it'd play the first ten seconds endlessly. I discovered this worked rather well with "Girl," such that you get asked "Is there anybody going to listen to my story all about the girl who came to stay?" over and over. What was once a rhetorical question starts to seem rather desperate after a while.

― eatandoph, Thursday, 21 June 2007 07:30 (5 years ago) Permalink

ROFLing at this.

There was no fifth Beatle, the substitutes all wore the number 8 shirt

Did anyone else know about this?!

wow no! wacky

Beatles guitarist George Harrison was the starting linebacker for the 1968 New York Giants. He recorded 40 tackles and 4 1/2 sacks.

The Beatles formed in Tower, Minnesota in 1958. They started out playing polkas at local dance halls, but quickly added popular country & western songs of the day to their repertoire.

Yeah, the intro to the Kinks Phenomenal Cat is a mellotron preset too. And all of the flute and guitar in that song are also mellotron.

The Beatles' Paul McCartney is a lifelong devotee of knitting. He recently opened an online website, Paulspets.com, which specializes in selling handmade knitwear for pets.

this looks like it's going to do the opposite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqDgm2XJ9SA

http://beatlephotoblog.com/photos/2013/07/ghjsrs.jpg

Little did he know the bloke on his right would be making movies about his career

i think it'll be an interesting doc, there hasn't been anything that explicitly focused on one topic like that and while there is a lot of live footage around, it's of varying quality. but i'm a sucker for all this shit.

Why hasn't The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl ever been reissued on CD? Surely by now they have the technology to reduce the crowd noise further than was possible in 1977, and if not - shouldn't there be enough other live recordings out there of sufficient quality that they could cobble a real live (as in, before a paying audience) album together?

Anyway, cross your fingers that there's a soundtrack to the above-previewed doc. Even if there isn't, we already know that they're charismatic enough personalities to carry a feature-length, even one by Mr. Beautiful Mind himself.

anyone here read the Albert Goldman book on Lennon? out of print, but worth buying online for a buck... very juicy, very trashy, extremely homoerotic...

Was there anything made of the longterm Fluxus artist choosing to marry a populist pop star?

Yeah, I have that Albert Goldman book.

It's nowhere near as 'damning' as Bono (etc) have made out, it gives an awful lot of bumf and expects you to unpick it.

e.g. that whole "John hit Stu and that's why Stu died", bottom line there is that nobody thought that except for John himself, possibly racked with guilt over some fight they had.